Thread by @jr_staves

1) The FBI and FISA:
- 4/12/16 Fusion GPS is Hired by Dems.
- 1 week later Jacoby (GPS founder wife) meets @ White House
- 6 days later FISA atty's & Baker meet @ WH
- Same day Obama's OFA makes payments to Coie who made payments to Fusion GPS
All this happens w/in 2 weeks

2)
- 4/26/16 Papa. meets Russians in London
- 4/30 DNC reports hack to FBI
- 5/15 CrowdStrike say Russia hacked DNC
- Same day Fusion hires Nellie Ohr, DOJ Atty wife's (DOJ Atty's are involved w/ FISA) - Notice this same day stuff it repeats

3)
- 5/21 Trump team refuses Papa's offer of Russia meeting
- Then abt a week later Natalia Veselnitskaya initiates exchange to set up meeting w/ Trump team (Don Jr)
- Funny how 1 Russia collusion attempt died (Papa) another one pops up

4)
- 6/9 VA meeting w/ Don jr happens - VA offers no Hillary dirt
- This is odd bc the meeting was abt this. Why would this happen?
- The meeting w/ VA most likely is a set up/trap
- 1 week later Steele is hired by Fusion (6/15) .
- Now the fun part....

- 7/5 FISA is denied
- Same day (once again) Steele shares Dossier w/ FBI
- Now, as far as we know, only 3 things have Trump/Russia connections for the FISA, & all 3 are dead ends. Papa meeting which never happened, NA meeting which offered nothing & bogus Oppo research Dossier.

6)
- If Trump was already colluding w/ Russia, why is Russia setting up meetings to collude, offering what the Trump team should already have? Makes no sense. Add in it was done thru low level Papa and a Beauty pageant associate of the Trump's, further pushes the idea of a setup.

7)
- We have a failed FISA and 3 Russia Dead ends. So what does the FBI do?
- On 7/30, 3 weeks later, it opens up an investigation into Team Trump
- Why? Looks like the FBI wanted a crime and was looking for evidence - AKA a set up

8) Questions
- Why/how/when was the FBI looking at Trump in first place and then asking for a FISA when all it had were dead ends?
- FISA application was so weak it was denied, the operation failed, but why did no heads get rolled for this?

9)
- Why start an investigation after a failed FISA?
- Who was leading that investigation? Strzok!
- So what happens 2 weeks later?
- 8/15 Strzok Texts "we need an insurance policy"
- Once again it looks like a set-up of a non existing crime, courtesy of high level FBI/DOJ people

10)
- 9/15/2106 FISA is approved
- What happened between 7/5 - 9/15 to warrant such a thing?
- To date only one thing, 7/5 Steele shares Dossier w/ FBI
- What else do we know abt the Dossier?
- The FBI was paying for it and working w/ Steele.

11) Questions again
- Why is the FBI working w/ and paying a firm/Steele that is working for the DNC and partially funded by Obama's OFA, against a Presidential candidate?
- How can no one in the FBI and DOJ see a conflict here?
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12)
- Answers to my questions lead me to believe the FBI/DOJ were setting up Trump
- Now add in how the FBI/DOJ let Hillary and her Hench People off the hook
- Then add in the all the texts discovered
- Also, how the same people were working both Hillary & Trump case

13)
- These same people who were pro Hillary and anti Trump
- After all this, the MSM, Dems, former FBI/DOJ, and Obama's people, think it's a crazy idea to think the FBI/DOJ top level people aren't/weren't corrupted/prejudiced
- The end

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